[New-bugs-announce] [issue37326] Python distributions do not contain libffi license

[Gregory Szorc]

New submission from Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>:

The Modules/_ctypes/libffi_msvc/ffi.h and Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx/include/ffi.h files in the CPython repository contain copies of libffi.

On at least the official Windows distributions, the LICENSE.txt does not contain libffi's license text from these files. This is seemingly in violation of libffi's license agreement, which clearly says "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

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components: Build
messages: 345944
nosy: indygreg
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python distributions do not contain libffi license
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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